Folding or collapsible head or hood of vehicles



APPLICATION FILED APR.29, 1920.

Bamm-sep@ .20, 1921.

@fiar 72a (adaw //7 UNITED AT ENT l Briton s'AM vmiis'roiv, or LONDON, ENGLANn.

FOLDING OR COLLAPSIBLE HEAD OR HOOD :OF VEHICLES.-

T 0 all whom t may concern.' c

Be it known that ARTHUR SAM CHns'roN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at London, England, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding or Collapsible Heads or Hoods of Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.Y Y v This invention relates to folding head or hood fittings for motor and other vehicles, suoli vehicles being either of the coup, cabriolet, landaulet and similar types, or of the open type. n

The object of the present invention is to provide a simplified means for folding or collapsing the lhood at the Vrear of the vehicle, which enables thecant-rail or equivapillar or upright by a link, so as to beconstrained, when the hood is collapsed, to fold into a position parallel with the pillar or upright and to move rearward so as to ex# tend beyond the end of the pillar or the like.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings 1s a side elevation showing the application. of one form of the invention, to a folding hood for a coup or similarvtype of vehicle,

the hood being shown in its extended condition.

Fig. 2 shows the hoodV when collapsed'.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the members which are` associated'with the cant-rail. y

Referring to therdrawings, l designates the cant-rail and shown as hinged to the forward end ofthe same is a horizontal front extension frame 2 adapted to be folded upward and rearward so as to ylie over the cant-rail, as shown in Fig. 2.V YThis eXten-A sion frame 2 carries a rearwardly-inclined hoop-stick 3 p'ivoted at 4 to a forwardly `inclined hoop-stick 5 which is hinged to the cant-rail; and this latter hoop-stick 5 is Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept 20, 1921 application filed April 29, 1920. serial No. 377,665. i

lupper end, to the upper end of the connected, by a horizontal link 6, to the upper and forward arm of an inclined lever 7 pivoted at 8 to the cant-rail and connected, at its lower and rear end, to the upper por- -tion of the pillar 9. The rear end of the cant-rail 1 is jointed to the upper end of a back stay 10 which is pivoted at its llower end, at 1l, to the vehicle frame behind the pillar, this stay being connected, near its pillar 9 by means of a link 12.

When the front f extension frame 2 is raised and pushed back,'its hoop-stick 3 operates the hoop-stick 5 on the cant-rail, and

this, in turn, through the medium of the horizontal link 6, operates the lever 7 be# tween the cant-rail and pillar, whereby the cant-rail is raised andimoved rearward, the

angular movement thus imparted to the-v rrear stay drawing down the pillar and causing the cant-rail to move beyond the end of the pillar andv finally :to lie horizontal above the latter, as shown in Fig. 2.

The applicationof the invention to hoods for openvehicles differs inno essential respectfrom its application to folding heads of coupe and llike vehicles, las described above. v

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters'Patent is l. In hoods for vehicles, the combination with a cant-rail, of a folding pillar, a'link connecting said pillar to the cant-rail, a hinged rear stay pivoted at its upper end directly to the' cant-rail,v and a link connectingsaid 'pillarand the rear stay, so that whenthe hood is collapsed, the rear stay causessaid cant-rail to move rearward -relatively to the pillar so that the vrear end of the cant-rail extends beyond the end of the pillar. i.

v2. In hoods of vehicles, the' Vcombination with a cant-rail or equivalent 4member, of a front extension frame hinged to the forward end of said cant-rail or the like, a forward hoop-stick operated by the exten-` sion frame, a lever pivoted to thecant-rail having one end connected to the said hoopstick by a link and the `end jointed'to the pillar or'main upright, and a hingedl rear suy cant-rail' or the like and connected to the f pillar or upright by a link, so that when the hood is collapsed, the rear stay causes the said cant-rail or thelike to move rearward beyond the end of the pillar and the latter to fold down, substantially as described'.

vIn testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specifieation in the presenceV of two subscribing Witnesses.

` ARTHUR SAM CHESTON.

Witnesses: n Y H. N. SKERRE'LT,

W. S. SKERRETT. 

